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The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a report Monday analyzing the Senate Republicans' health care bill released last week in the party’s latest efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. CNN has the full 50-page report, which estimates that 22 million will lose coverage under the new law. That estimate isn’t far off from the proposed House Republican plan, where 23 million were projected to lose their insurance, reports the Washington Post. If the bill passes, approximately 49 million people would be uninsured by 2026. The report also estimates that the federal deficit is expected to decrease significantly under the bill, but that's largely thanks to big cuts to Medicaid, a major concern for Senate Republicans who have not committed to voting for the bill.

According to the Atlantic, senators including Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Ron Johnson, and Rob Portman say the CBO report’s findings will influence their decisions. “You can’t take over $800 billion out of the Medicaid program and not expect that it's going to have an impact on a rural nursing home that relies on Medicaid for 70% of the costs of its patients,” Collins said on ABC’s This Week, adding that seven or eight of her colleagues would be looking closely at the CBO report. Meanwhile, senators like Rand Paul are hoping to push the bill further to the right by eliminating pre-existing conditions clauses. The Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 was released just last Thursday, but party leaders are rejecting pleas to delay a vote until after the July 4 recess.

Again trump Fs over the poorest and dumbest trumpanzees. Lets roll out the lies poor trumpanzees believed once more: “I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid” "There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can’t pay for it, you don’t get it. That’s not going to happen with us.” "Everybody’s going to be taken care of much better than they’re taken care of now" “We don't want anyone who currently has insurance to not have insurance.”

JERZJOE

Jun 27, 2017 3:38 PM CDT

HMMMMMMMMMM... Learning From CBO's History Of Incorrect ObamaCare Projections~forbes.com As Congress readies legislation to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates will play an important and respected role as they did in the passage of the law in 2010. We now know that many of CBO’s projections of important aspects of the ACA have significantly differed from actual outcomes. In this piece, I highlight CBO’s key past errors in projecting effects of the ACA. They can largely be grouped into two categories. First, CBO projected that the exchanges would be stable by now with more than twice as many enrollees as they currently have, rather than suffering from severe adverse selection in most states as they now are. Second, CBO projected that the ACA Medicaid expansion would be much smaller and less expensive than it has turned out to be. These errors were caused by two primary mistakes in CBO’s model and assumptions. First, CBO significantly overestimated the degree to which the individual mandate would induce relatively healthy people with middle class income to buy coverage in the exchanges. Second, CBO failed to anticipate that states would respond to the federal government’s elevated reimbursement rate for the Medicaid expansion by maximizing enrollment and paying insurance companies extremely high payment rates for this population. CBO has not yet explained if or how it has corrected its models for these past mistakes, but it should do so if it wants to improve confidence in its estimates of repeal and replace legislation. & we are suppose to take the CBO on the AHCA projection or GUESS as I would say Like Scripture from the BIBLE? Have a nice day & There ya go ALL! PREZ TRUMP for 8 YEARS!#MAGA PREZ PENCE For 8 YEARS! & The GOP in Control of the House,Senate & The SCOTUS for a LONNNNGGG TIME!

Lefty Libby

Jun 27, 2017 1:01 PM CDT

I've paid taxes my entire life to provide for government services, like Medicare and Medicaid. Currently, I pay premiums to receive coverage under Medicare, which does not cover longterm nursing home care. Should I need nursing care, Medicaid covers that, and it wouldn't be free. I have a lot of assets, which the state would use to settle my Medicaid bill. Now, Trumpcare wants $7 billion more from the taxpayers of my state to give a $1 trillion welfare tax cut to the top 1 and 2% of Americans. Just how many times does the GOP want to tax me, and steal my money for rich people?